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Welcome to the 2017 Newcastle Poetry Festival. READINGS | MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS | PERFORMANCES | WORKSHOPS | FILMS | BOOK SIGNINGS | FOOD STALLS
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The Newcastle Poetry Festival is extremely proud to host two poetry commissions: Crossings and Waves and Bones, both which will be launched Friday 4 May at Northern Stage. Crossings are poems inspired by the artist Sean Scully. This year’s festival … Continued
David Caro. Guitarist. Despite his youth, he has accompanied great flamenco figures such as El Pele, El Carpeta, Farruca and Juan Pinilla. He has travelled with his music to countries such as Turkey, Mexico, … Continued
Originally from the Midlands, Degna Stone now lives in Tyne & Wear. She is a co-founder of Butcher’s Dog poetry magazine and a contributing editor at The Rialto. She holds an MA in Creative … Continued
Juan Pinilla is a Flamenco singer, writer and journalist. He has won many awards, including the 2007 Festival del Cante de las Minas with the prize Lampara Minera, a significant Flamenco prize. Having toured their … Continued
Sophie O’Neill is Managing Director of Inpress and The Poetry Book Society. Before joining Inpress she was Head of Sales at Canongate Books. Events The Northern Poetry Symposium
Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to an English mother and a Jamaican father. She is the recipient of the Kate Betts Memorial Prize and an Arts and Humanities Research Council scholarship from … Continued
Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, former USSR, and arrived in USA in 1993, when his family was granted asylum. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa (Tupelo Press), Deaf Republic (forthcoming from … Continued
Fanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose, including On the Ground (2004), Second Childhood (2014) and The Needle’s Eye (2016). In 2008 Howe won an Award in … Continued
Emma Holliday lives in the North East and paints throughout the UK. Events Poetry and Painting workshop with Sinéad Morrissey and Emma Holliday